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Old 01-28-2015, 02:53 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada View Post
Again this is just your opinion that the bad acting was distracting as we are talking about a movie that was widely acclaimed. I've seen movies that were widely acclaimed that I didn't personally like but I can differentiate between what I don't like and what's simply awful which would have a place in a worst movie's list. I can understand a person not liking Gran Torino but putting it on an all time worst movie list shows how little you know about what a truly bad movie is.
I tend to avoid bad movies altogether - you won't catch me watching Ender's Game, for example. I generally follow the critics with my movie selection so anything that's truly awful I won't watch, period. The exceptions are movies I was dragged to along with buddies (Resident Evil, Sucker Punch).

This thread is Top 5 movies you've ever seen...I could give you every Adam Sandler movie made over the last decade and they're worse than Gran Torino, but I couldn't be bothered to watch them. If that makes it so that I'm not an "expert" on bad movies then I'm pretty ok with that.

For me, for a movie that was so well acclaimed, GT was just so obviously lacking. Laughable dialogue and obviously the acting as mentioned, was awful. I love Clint Eastwood, but if anyone else had directed that film I think the critics would have been a lot harder on it.
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